Light, Kelly & Dawes, P.C., located in Denver, practices local government law, litigation, and insurance law. The firm was established in 1987, and since its founding has provided clients with effective and cost-efficient legal services. Its partners have over fifty years combined experience in representing clients in a wide variety of legal matters.

The firm’s local government practice focuses on representation of individual local governments, including home rule and statutory cities and towns, counties, districts, local government officials, and associations of local governments. Attorneys in the firm have significant experience in a wide variety of legal issues affecting local governments, including land use, zoning, annexation, urban renewal, personnel, elections, home rule, open meetings, budget and finance, TABOR issues, public records, sales, use, and other taxes, liquor licensing, public contracting, and federal and state issues affecting local governments.

The firm’s litigation practice focuses on the defense of governmental entities and public officials, the defense of individuals and business entities in personal injury and property damage cases, and insurance law. With respect to public entity defense, the firm’s attorneys have represented counties, municipalities, special districts, and the State of Colorado and have handled many cases involving federal and state tort, constitutional, and civil rights claims involving land use, employment law, police liability, election contests, licensing, taxation, free speech, religious rights, Open Records Act, and Open Meetings Law claims. With regard to defense of general tort and contract claims, the firm’s attorneys have represented clients in cases related to automobile, premises liability, defamation, ski injuries, product liability, and construction claims.

In the field of insurance law, the firm represents insurance companies, local government risk-sharing pools, and third party administrators in tort and contract claims and provides insurance coverage analyses of many types of insurance contracts including auto, homeowners, public officials liability, commercial general liability, property, builders risk, errors and omissions, professional liability, directors and officers, and umbrella/excess.

The firm’s attorneys have authored a wide variety of articles and publications on issues concerning local government law, litigation, insurance law, and other topics, and are frequent conference presenters on legal issues.